Synopses & Reviews
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"Inventive and wholly original...a fully realized portrait of a complex and fascinating woman." Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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"Alameddine's new novel unfolds like a secret... creating a tale...humorous and heartbreaking and always real." Los Angeles Times
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"[W]ith each new approach, [Sarah] sheds another layer of her pretension, revealing another truth about her humanity." San Francisco Weekly
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"[M]oving and memorable." Boston Globe
Synopsis
Alameddine's new novel unfolds like a secret... creating a tale...humorous and heartbreaking and always real (Los Angeles Times). W]ith each new approach, Sarah] sheds another layer of her pretension, revealing another truth about her humanity (San Francisco Weekly). Raised in a hybrid family shaped by divorce and remarriage, and by Beirut in wartime, Sarah finds a fragile peace in self-imposed exile in the United States. Her extraordinary dignity is supported by a best friend, a grown-up son, occasional sensual pleasures, and her determination to tell her own story. Like her narrative, Sarah's] life is broken and fragmented. But] the bright, strange, often startling pieces...are moving and memorable (Boston Globe). Reading group guide included.
Synopsis
Named after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is "wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing," raves Amy Tan. Determined to make of her life a work of art, she tries to tell her story, sometimes casting it as a memoir, sometimes a novel, always fascinatingly incomplete.
About the Author
Rabih Alameddine is a writer and artist living in San Francisco. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Koolaids: The Art of War and The Perv.